Type of bind: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Berkley Pub Group
Manufacturer: Berkley Pub Group
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: January 01, 2004
Publishing house: Berkley Pub Group
Sale Popularity Level: 738908
Studio: Berkley Pub Group
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Style and sensuality. Power and passion...There's something about the Parisian boutique Meilleurs Amis that provokes all who enter to blur the line between business and pleasure. No one knows this better than Beatrix Clouet, the daughter of its infamous and not-so-dearly departed founder, and her best friend-and new management trainee-Lela Turner.
Now, as they try to get their professional and personal lives on track, these best friends will have to weigh the price of love and lust-while making their wildest fantasies come to life...
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I generally enjoy erotica, even books that include m/m/f ménage which may put off some readers. The primary problem with this book is that the characters are shallow and overly promiscuous. Two of the four characters appear confused about their sexual orientation. Why is this a problem for liberated women and men who enjoy this type of novel? Simple. It's just not sexy when a couple that's falling in love stumble across a man-boy cruising for sex in a graveyard and have him introduce the hero to his very first homosexual experience - which the hero loves. See other reviews for more details.
I like a good erotic read as much as the subsequent person and appreciate an unconventional twist. Inevitably those kinds of books offer a satisfying read that leaves me caring about the characters. This book left me feeling slightly icky.
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I SO THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THIS PIECE BY EMMA HOLLY, THOSE WHO DID NOT ENJOY IT..WELL AS THE SAYING GOES" EVERYTHING AINT FOR EVERYBODY"! IF YOU'VE READ SOME OF THE AUTHORS COMMENT ON THE BACK OF THE BOOK IT STATES ..
(1)VERY HOT!
(2)EROTIC ROMANCE!
(3) FUN,SEXY,ROMANTIC!
THIS READ WAS ALL OF THAT AND SOME! I SIMPLY LOVED LELA AND SIMON AS COUPLE WITH ANDREW ON THE SIDE!LOL... I ALSO ENJOYED BEA AND PHILIP AS A COUPLE..EMMA DEAR . .. MY MIND WAS OFF AND RUNNING AND WHAT IMAGINATION! OR WAS IT?..LOL
FELLOW READERS..IF YOU HAVE AN OPEN MIND.. AND ARE MOST COMFORTABLE WITH YOUR SEXUALITY..THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU!
AS A MATTER OF FACT..I BOUGHT THIS BOOK NOVEMBER 2005.. AND I'VE READ IT AT LEAST 5 TIMES ALREADY ...LOL.. MY ONLY MISTAKE IS READING IT WHEN IM AT WORK.. OMG! THE FUSTRASTION!..LOL
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This book has entered a place in my top ten personal favorite stories. I have been bored to tears recently with the totally vanilla offerings of mainstream romance. I have a fondness for Emma Holly's Menage. But wow, this book was smoking hot, with a plot. If all erotica was this good, no one would worry about getting published.
This book centered around a couple of good friends Bea and Lena, their lives, livelihoods, and loves. It was fast, racy, and yet still tender and heartfelt. The glam setting reminded me a bit of Judith Krantz, just a little too good to be true, but feeling true all the same. Moving from Paris to New York to Rome, it didn't feel like reading info dump from a travel guide, it felt like going there and feeling the vibe, which I know because I have gone there. (If only I'd found strangers like that, my scrapbooks would be entirely different...alas, no soup for me.)
Frankly, I'm surprised that a novel with this much steam in it had so much plot and personal growth and really held its own as a novel, although it makes me sad that I'm surprised. If you are looking for sweet, one woman, one man, missionary or virginal romance with nothing distracting you from that, stay far, far away. But know that you'll be missing out on lush story. As to the steam, these relationships and encounters feel accessible, kinky without having to dive headlong into the world of role playing and the yawningly strict rules of BDSM. Just contemporary experimentation, lust, and love in a very satisfying package. Buy it, read it, buy another copy for your friends.
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I am not a prude, but to me romance is between two people. Anything else to me is erotica. That is fine, there are people who love erotica. I am not one of them. For me that takes away the romance. I do not like if either my heroine or hero have sex with anyone else (I wanted Phillip to run for his life and he was no prize either--he should have worn a condom everytime with her). SPOILER:How is it love when the heroine cannot keep her parts off a man for twentyfour hours at least. She harps on and on about this crush, but at the very first sign of interest from another man she's off. That's not liberated that's ho-ish. He at least does not realize his feelings. However, I know others do not mind, so I really wish authors would give warning if there are threesomes. I've loved other books by Ms. Holly, especially her paranormals. However I am going to have to give her contemporaries a wide berth if this was what I am to expect. There was too much sex for me to feel any love. I ended up throwing this book away at the train station.
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This is one of those books that I don't really like to classify as strictly a romance or strictly an erotica story because it just doesn't fall neatly into either category. Yes the sex is hot and there are some hints of alternative lifestyles there with the two variations on threesomes, but all in all it was pretty mild stuff.
The romance part was a little harder to take just because it all felt like a rushed, love at very first sight, let's find a way to get these people into bed with each other really fast kind of ploy. It works with the rest of the story, but again, it still leaves the romance feel kind of weak.
That all being said, it's still a fast reading page-turner that will definitely get you turned on providing you're into sexual exploration like that. However, if you're like some of the reviewers here, who really let their homophobia show despite the fact that there was actually very little same sex action to speak of in this story, PLEASE, do us all a favor and don't pick up this book, chances are you're not going to like it. Stick to the more mainstream romance writers like Johanna Lindsey, Pamela Morsi, or even go to the classics like Jane Austin.
For the reviewer who insisted on referring to Lela as 'the lesbian friend' just because she joined in on a threesome with Bea and Andrew and later admitted to having had sex with other women on a few occasions, the correct term you should be utilizing there would be bisexual. That's why it's really no big surprise to anyone who read the story that she ended up with a man at the end. If you can't handle the content of a story then sit the book down and don't read it.
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